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Neuroscience

Huberman Lab Disciples

These students drink athletic greens, actively try to optimize their circadian rhythms, and view human emotion purely as dopamine fluctuations. They are absolutely going to get a Ph.D. and will not stop telling you about it.

# University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Stanford, CA 4%
2 Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
Baltimore, MD 130 5% 48% / 52% 11% $68,015
3 University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia, PA 152 4% 36% / 64% 5% $96,561
4 University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
La Jolla, CA 185 24% 39% / 61% 11% $61,518
5 University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA 143 9% 37% / 63% 10% $70,521

Rat Maze Architects

Spending 40 hours a week in a basement watching mice navigate water mazes and pulling tiny levers. They know significantly more about rodent anxiety than they do about actual human behavior.

# University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Duke University
Durham, NC
Durham, NC 87 5% 26% / 74% 7% $78,521
2 Columbia University
New York, NY
New York, NY 104 4% 30% / 70% 13% $71,749
3 Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, MO
Saint Louis, MO 63 8% 46% / 54% 6%
4 New York University
New York, NY
New York, NY 57 8% 30% / 70% 21% $60,548
5 University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Berkeley, CA 11%

Pre-Meds in Disguise

They chose Neuroscience because Biology felt too basic and they wanted to impress medical school admissions committees. Currently crying over organic chemistry and running entirely on caffeine.

# University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Emory University
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, GA 170 11% 32% / 68% 6% $68,758
2 Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Evanston, IL 110 7% 31% / 69% 5%
3 University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Ann Arbor, MI 159 15% 35% / 65% 4% $73,150
4 University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL 63 5% 38% / 62% 6%
5 Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Nashville, TN 50 4% 50% / 50% 6% $76,063

Serotonin Seekers

Solid, research-heavy programs where you actually get to touch an EEG machine before you graduate. Will confidently diagnose your bad mood as a temporary chemical deficit.

# University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA 54 44% 31% / 69% 2% $59,354
2 Boston University
Boston, MA
Boston, MA 122 13% 28% / 72% 9% $67,986
3 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Chapel Hill, NC 166 16% 33% / 67% 4%
4 University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI
Madison, WI 223 43% 36% / 64% 5%
5 University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA 110 9% 40% / 60% 5% $69,241